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 Independent Horror - Garetano, Christopher (Horror Business) :: Horror Channel.com ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The horror section of the store was so plentiful, and we (my three siblings and I) were consistently exposed to all kinds of cinema.
Horror Business is my essay on the complex lifestyle of a truly independent moviemaker.
Horror Business took just under three years to make, and during that time life wasn't exactly easy…There were many hardships in my personal life that in many cases stemmed from the time I was spending on the film.
www.horrorchannel.com /index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4669   (3363 words)

  
 Scary movies are big bucks for Hollywood - Sep. 30, 2005
"Horror is one of those genres that have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of audience," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co, a box-office tracking firm.
Sony is releasing a remake of John Carpenter's 1980 horror classic "The Fog" on Oct. 14.
Horror is the sort of thing that smaller independents have historically done well," said Dennis McAlpine, an independent media analyst.
money.cnn.com /2005/09/30/news/fortune500/horror   (1181 words)

  
 Horrors
This home business horror, as told by Karen Varinecz, has been excerpted from testimony provided on March 10, 1997, during the public Committee Meeting of the New Jersey State Assembly Housing Committee and New Jersey State Assembly Commerce and Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee, Assemblymen John V. Kelly and Joseph Azzolina, Cochairmen.
The woman said she had gotten a complaint about my business, and although she didn't confirm it, I later found out it wasn't from anyone in my neighborhood, but from a competitor in my town.
I actually spoke to a business broker to sell the business, but because it was in such bad shape and had no track record yet in retail, he couldn't do anything.
www.hbbc.org /hbbc/horrors.htm   (1661 words)

  
 Kevin Finn : The Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On one such occasion I attacked the Horror Business 5000 figure and managed to convince Mark of its illegitimacy, ultimately resulting in his decision to update the MisfitsCentral discography.
If 5000 is indeed the correct pressing number for Horror Business, the jump from 2000 Bullets up to 5000 Horror Businesses and back down to 2000 Night Of The Living Deads is almost as bizarre a numerical anomaly as the one in the previous paragraph.
It also shows that Horror Business and Night Of The Living Dead were only released three months apart because of the unintended delay of Danzig changing pressing plants.
kevfinn.com /misfits/index.php?Page=cough&Id=7   (1403 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Features and Interviews
The whims of pop culture were not kind either, and the Clinton-era's "Scream"-inspired wave of knowing, ironic horror films reduced the chainsaw-wielding maniac to a visual punchline by the time the decade closed.
"Horror films tend to be particularly popular in times of political unrest, economic depression, war, terrorism, all kinds of domestic strife," explained Tony Timpone, editor of horror's foremost chronicle, Fangoria.
This year, the trend has continued, with the zombies of "Dawn of the Dead" chasing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" from the top of the box-office mound, opening with $26 million, and an armload of chills are expected to hit theaters before the year is out.
www.mtv.com /shared/movies/features/h/horror_feature_040607   (529 words)

  
 Equity Trustees looks beyond a horror year - Business - www.theage.com.au
Equity Trustees chairman Philip Molyneux says the company has closed the books on a horror 2002-03 financial year and is ready to return to profitability and ramp up its funds under management.
All funds were eventually returned to investors and the chief executive quit soon after, but the mistake left a hole in the budget that was reflected in yesterday's 2002-03 results.
He said the changes were having a positive effect, as funds under management had grown by $30 million in the first two months of 2003-04.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/11/1063268514039.html   (278 words)

  
 FW Horror: Selections from the Vault
Horror's not dead, it just takes more originality to get a horror novel published these days, because the audience is finally becoming sophisticated enough to demand a higher quality product.
My own hope for the "horror of the future" is something more along the lines of "a dark sense of wonder": we should be going "gosh-wow" at the same time we get that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach.
Horror is now reputable enough to for people to consider writing it over other forms they could write.
www.oceanstar.com /horror/whither.htm   (5206 words)

  
 Horror Movies and More | BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
Clearly, “Horror Business” was a labor of love for both Garetano as well as the subjects in his film.
The idea was to have people in the horror business write articles for the magazine as well as document the chronological journal of my progress on the making of the film.
CPG: Son of Horror Business is going to be quite different than the first and with documentary films like this I'm discovering that you must let them grow during the filmmaking process otherwise it will feel forced and mediocre.
www.bloody-disgusting.com /features.php?id=197   (3981 words)

  
 Horror Business (V) - Movie Review | BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
Documentarian and creator of the horror magazine “Are You Going?”, Christopher P. Garetano has put together a fascinating, often irreverent, often deadly serious look at the world of the indie horror movie in his latest film, “Horror Business”.
Garetano also interviewed such horror veterans as Herschell Gordon Lewis, whose advice to filmmakers is to make a movie FOR the audience, NOT for yourself and “The Devil’s Rejects” Sid Haig who gives his opinion on when a horror movie goes too far.
One thing they all seem to have in common though, is a love for such classic horror films as “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Last House on the Left”, both films being mentioned by all of the filmmakers as having a huge impact on them when they were young.
www.bloody-disgusting.com /review.php?id=1007   (775 words)

  
 Horror Business
"[Horror Business] is an extremely competent, thoroughly engaging film about horror movies and those who love them.
Welcome to the strange universe of Horror Business, a documentary that has been a twenty-four hour a day, seven-day-a-week obsession of mine since I began shooting it in January of 2003.
You may recognize many of the artists that appear in Horror Business but I assure you that some of them will be heard and seen here for the first time.
www.horrorbusinessmovie.com   (357 words)

  
 distribution and fulfillment horror stories - RPGnet Forums
He was very busy and had just picked up a lot of Wizard's Attics customers and was still dealing with that.
It was a tough business decision as I knew most of these folks from my Wingnut Games side of things...but when companies are selling 2 copies of their game to DISTRIBUTION per month, that is a failed line.
Just to be clear we call and talk over things (how business is doing, what can we do to help, state of the company) with the retailers on the list.
forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?t=87441   (3129 words)

  
 Horror Business (2005) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But it's the perfect summary as director Christopher Garetano explores and investigates why we're drawn, filmmakers especially, to horror in general.
It's also an examination of the spirit one tries to hold onto in a harsh business to enter, let alone prosper in.
Some of the work we see from the directors is barely above the amateur level, some more ambitious and detailed; but their resulting work isn't the point.
imdb.com /title/tt0460823   (672 words)

  
 Horror Business - DVD Reviewed by Lee Bailes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MAGAZINE’ (http://www.areyougoingmovie.com) the excellent US Indie, Fanzine style analysis of everything to do with Indie Horror filmmaking – as well as a filmmaker in his own right.
The film is an entertaining, often bloody fake blood-and-all examination of straight to video horror and the men behind the scares.
It is a largely nostalgic look back at the Horror movement of the seventies, the era of Chris’s childhood, contrasted with the filmmakers who now pay tribute to those films that inspired them at an early age.
www.rumourmachine.com /Reviews/Horror_Business.htm   (955 words)

  
 Arrow In The Head's Top 10 favourite films of 2004
2004 was a very good year for me in terms of boogying to quality genre films and it has been an excellent year for horror business in general.
Horror equaled mucho money on this round and on one hand that meant more fear flicks being produced.
The French finally get their horror classic and we finally get a smart, sadistic, graphic and perverted flick that lives up to the term “horror”.
www.joblo.com /arrow/top10.php?year=2004   (1077 words)

  
 RI International Horror Film Festival
The 2006 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival will start off it’s season with a tribute to Rhode Islands Premiere horror scribe H.P. Lovecraft with a showing of “THE CALL OF THE CTHULHU” A film Made by the H.P. Lovecraft historical society.
The Horror Festival is an eerie-sistable salute to an often overlooked genre that will include numerous world premieres of shorts and features including the best of films submitted in competition from all over the globe.
All proceeds generated by the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival will be dedicated to the Patricia Neal Scholarship Fund that is designed to help area college students pursue studies in the film arts.
www.film-festival.org /Horror_ri.php   (996 words)

  
 Final act still to come in ICA's horror show - Business - Business
Part of its business is in liquidation after the discovery of potential debts of up to $13 million, while the parent group has reported a loss of $14.48 million.
"I've been in the business all my life and I didn't realise I was actually missing it until we saw that show," Jewel says.
In the ICA annual report, he says he has expertise in revitalising underperforming businesses in manufacturing, mining and distribution.
www.theage.com.au /news/business/final-act-still-to-come-in-icas-horror-show/2005/10/07/1128562997907.html   (1560 words)

  
 Salty Ham: Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Welcome, one and all to yet another installment of "Horror Business" exclusively at the Salty Ham.
It is here where you can get up to date information on the business that is the horror film industry.
This isn't to mention that George Romero at the helm of a zombie film, is plenty for a horror fan to scream over.
www.saltyham.com /Movies/HorrorBusiness.asp   (1143 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Horror Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Horror Business are a young punk rock band from Surrey, South - East England.
All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 Horror Business.
You must be logged in as a “LISTENER” to have favorite artists.
www.purevolume.com /horrorbusiness/photos   (46 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/horrorbusiness
Horror Business is a MisFiTs tribute band from Manfield Ohio.
Horror Business performs songs from all eras of misfits rather than limiting themselves to one.
They also combine the music w/ their own interpretations of the style to bring people the looks and sounds of the misfits.
www.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4960780&Mytoken=20050328134750   (357 words)

  
 Horace Cooper on Oracle on National Review Online
The missed signs of the flout and, less seriously, those of the standard horror picture, serve as a cautionary tale for what could be taking place in the world of business software if the warning signs are ignored and the Oracle hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft is greenlighted by the Justice Department.
Oracle's scheme is to force all these businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions to spend countless dollars replacing the PeopleSoft software with Oracle's.
Like the victims of the flout, PeopleSoft customers will be minding their own business when suddenly the lights will go out for them as their software becomes unusable, its replacement costly to implement, and its function less reliable and friendly than the software they were bullied into discontinuing.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-cooper091703.asp   (602 words)

  
 Critical Condition - The Online Magazine Of Obscure & Bizarre Films
The early 80's were a boon to the horror business as many home-grown and foreign-made horror films
Being the horror maven that I am (and will always be), I started CritCon to separate the cream from the crap.
The year 1985 was a turning point in the horror film business.
www.critcononline.com   (1226 words)

  
 Filmmaker Showcase: Horror Business Premieres at Visionfest
So as a means to get you the same news they send us, we're going to use this place for their press releases.
The first full-length feature from Garetano, whose short Inside was seen on Fangoria's Blood Drive DVD, Horror Business is a look into the lives of guerrilla fright filmmakers and a wry analysis of the passions and desires which compel them to strive for the top, whether they fail or triumph at their tasks.
Horror Business will be in attendance at the premiere.
www.reallyscary.com /showcase/2005/07/horror-business-premieres-at.html   (254 words)

  
 -Horror Business-: Playlist 11.4.04
Spook news and Playlists for the radio show HORROR BUSINESS on wsmu.org.
Either way you can hear his unique musical collage known as Horror Business every Thursday evening from 11:59pm to 2am (Eastern time) on 91.1 fm WSMU or by scientific miracle of webcasting, the screams can be heard at www.wsmu.org.
Dj jedhel...or the creature posing as him...maintains this BLOG that chronicles his obsession with the sounds of horror, and is updated when he finds a way to escape his snug canvas straightjacket.
jedhel.blogspot.com /2004/11/playlist-11404.html   (173 words)

  
 Pref holders cast in a Village horror movie - Business - smh.com.au
There aren't many companies that could buy back more than half their capital bases over a three-year period solely from the cash they generate internally.
Village's cinema, theme parks, film distribution business and its controlling stake in the Austereo radio network mean it generates a lot of cash.
If the preference shareholders endorse the scheme, effectively Village will have bought back the majority of its capital base at a massive discount to its underlying value.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/31/1067566089322.html   (1141 words)

  
 Horror Business
For over two years, Chris traveled the country attending horror conventions and independent film shoots to gather materials for Horror Business.
During that time he captured wonderful footage of both up-and-comers as well as some horror industry veterans.
Along with Horror Business, Chris also wrote and directed several short films, one of which was featured on a compilation DVD by Fangoria Magazine called "Fangoria Blood Drive."
horrorbusinessmovie.com /Director.htm   (122 words)

  
 The New York Times > Movies > Movies News and Features > The Oscar for Best Zombie Goes To . . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Though internal doubts were said to have been expressed about the repercussions of Warner Brothers' going into the decidedly unprestigious horror business, it turned out that it only added to the company's bottom line and created a whole new audience.
Silver ventured into big-screen horror and is now the studio's production president, the decision to farm out the horror genre to Dark Castle only made sense.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, who was production president of Warner Brothers and recently produced its fantasy-horror film "Constantine," said he thought horror would continue to be popular, as long as the culture at large felt the uncertainty that comes with war and troubled times, and relished the comfort of a more domesticated kind of horror.
www.nytimes.com /2005/04/30/movies/MoviesFeatures/30wax.html?ex=1272513600&en=6feeee9c9dfaea76&ei=5088&emc=rss   (1101 words)

  
 THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER | HORROR
For their third sound horror production, Universal chose to follow the now-established (and lucrative) pattern of adapting the classic works of nineteenth century authors.
The live monkey close-ups invariably feature a soft focus that contrasts markedly with the more natural hard focus of the medium and long shots of the gorilla suit.
Bryan Senn is the author of Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema, available from Midnight Marquee Press and Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931-1939, available from McFarland and Co.
www.bmonster.com /horror32.html   (3236 words)

  
 Video Business: Horror for all seasons. (Halloween Purchasing Guide).(MTI Home Video announces its plans for the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Larry Brahms, president of MTI Home Video, says he "didn't even think of Halloween" when he scheduled his upcoming horror titles-the product seems to do well no matter what the season.
"The creature can be the star." He tries to balance the combined release slate of MTI and its distributed labels so that about one horror feature is released per month.
The above preview is from Video Business, June 23, 2003.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:104623312&refid=holomed_1   (204 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Horror Business (TX)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Horror Business (TX) hasn't posted a blog yet.
Horror Business (TX) hasn't posted any shows yet.
All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 Horror Business (TX).
www.purevolume.com /horrorbusinesstx   (86 words)

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